New ideas lead a new journey | Building modern civilization of the Chinese nation under the guidance of Xi Jinping’s cultural thoughts

"The best inheritance of history is to create new history, and the greatest tribute to human civilization is to create a new form of human civilization." Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has insisted on placing cultural construction in a prominent position in governance. , insisting on combining the basic principles of Marxism with China's specific reality and with China's excellent traditional culture, and clearly put forward a series of new ideas, new perspectives and new judgments, forming Xi Jinping Cultural Thought, marking our party's rule of construction of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics The understanding has reached a new height, indicating that our party's historical confidence and cultural confidence have reached a new height, pushing the development of Chinese culture to a new stage, and providing scientific ideas and action guidelines for the construction of modern civilization of the Chinese nation.

As the first capital site of the late Shang Dynasty with documented documents and confirmed by archaeological excavations in the history of our country, among the many archaeological discoveries in the Yin Ruins, oracle bone inscriptions are the most important. Among the four known ancient writing systems in the world, only the ancient Chinese writing system represented by the Yin Ruins oracle bone inscriptions has traveled through time and space and continues to this day.

Caring about cultural protection, inheritance and innovative development, in October 2022, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out when inspecting the Yin Ruins site, "I have longed for the Yin Ruins. This time I came to learn and understand Chinese civilization more deeply, to use the past for the present, and to better build China." Provide reference for national modern civilization.”

Zhao Qingrong, Executive Deputy Director of the Yinxu Museum: We have always kept in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping’s instructions, adhered to integrity and innovation in the exhibition work of the Yinxu Museum, and made extensive use of digital technologies such as multimedia to make cultural relics, documents, and oracle bone records "alive" for tourists. Be able to understand, remember, and want to share, effectively fulfill the Yin Xu Museum’s cultural heritage protection and inheritance responsibilities, and contribute to better building the modern civilization of the Chinese nation.

Continue Chinese civilization and gather spiritual strength. China's excellent traditional culture remains everlasting and full of vitality in its inheritance and development. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has led China to promote cultural protection, inheritance and innovative development with unprecedented efforts, with a firm cultural awareness and confidence, and made a series of important expositions and instructions to chart the path and provide cultural construction in the new era. follow. Important works such as "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China" and "Selected Readings of Xi Jinping's Works" focus on displaying the latest achievements of the sinicization of Marxism, illuminating the road to rejuvenation with the light of truth and solidifying the ideological foundation for the unity and progress of the Chinese people; in 2023 At the symposium on cultural inheritance and development held in June 2016, General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly discussed the five outstanding characteristics of Chinese civilization, systematically elaborated on the significance of "two combinations", especially the "second combination", and proposed that "at a new starting point We must continue to promote cultural prosperity, build a culturally powerful country, and build the modern civilization of the Chinese nation." This is a new cultural mission in the new era.

Wang Xinsheng, Dean of the School of Marxism at Nankai University: General Secretary Xi Jinping is far-sighted and oriented, proposing "two combinations", which is of great significance and far-reaching, and points out the fundamental way to build the modern civilization of the Chinese nation. We must follow the guidance of Xi Jinping’s cultural thoughts and in the process of building the modern civilization of the Chinese nation, we must strengthen cultural self-confidence, uphold openness and inclusiveness, and persist in integrity and innovation as our basic policies. We must work hard over time and constantly open up new prospects for cultural construction.

"The excellent Chinese traditional culture nurtured by the Chinese nation's more than 5,000 years of civilization represents the unique spiritual identity of the Chinese nation and is a rich source of nourishment for the Chinese nation's endless growth and development." Under the guidance of Xi Jinping's cultural thoughts, China's excellent traditional culture The vitality of culture is activated by the spirit of the times and integrated with revolutionary culture and advanced socialist culture: the "people-centered" governance practice demonstrates the value pursuit of "the people are the foundation of the country, and the foundation is the foundation of the country"; more than 1.4 billion The struggle of the Chinese people to "roll up their sleeves and work hard" demonstrates the national character of constant self-improvement, diligence and bravery; the inexhaustible power of innovation released by high-quality development is a vivid portrayal of the pioneering spirit of "new every day, new every day, and new again every day" ; The ecological concept of "lucid waters and green mountains are mountains of gold and silver" is the inheritance and development of the traditional thinking of "Tao follows nature" and "the unity of nature and man". The core values ​​of socialism have been cultivated with the excellent traditional Chinese culture. The construction of spiritual civilization and moral construction in the new era has achieved fruitful results, and the cultural confidence of the whole party and people of all ethnic groups has been significantly enhanced.

The "Village Super" in Rongjiang County and the "Village BA" in Taijiang County in Guizhou Province use sports as the engine to create new cultural tourism formats, vividly demonstrating the high-spirited self-confidence and self-improvement of the people in the new era, and are known as "observations of Chinese modernization." "A window"; in Jining City, Shandong Province, the hometown of Confucius, the essence of Confucian culture is constantly being integrated into grassroots social governance. The city's 300 cultural "two innovation" demonstration sites combine excellent traditional culture with new era civilization construction, school education, etc., nourishing The folk customs and the spiritual outlook of the masses have taken on a new look.

Enriching the people’s spiritual and cultural life with high-quality literary and artistic works, original Chinese stage productions such as the National Center for the Performing Arts’ “Spring in Yangjialing” are attracting more and more young audiences, and once niche folk music and opera performances are full to the brim with critical acclaim and critical acclaim; High-quality programs such as "China in Intangible Cultural Heritage" and "Poetry and Painting of China" allow China's excellent traditional culture to shine with the glory of the times through creative transformation and innovative development; local cultural and tourism departments based on local resources, create distinctive cultural business cards, red tourism, rural Tours, intangible cultural heritage tours, and study tours drive more people to "poetry and distant places"; in the field of consumption, the "national craze" symbolized by Chinese cultural elements not only leads the new cultural trend, but also helps made in China and Chinese brands The rise of the film industry; a batch of "new mainstream films" rooted in China's excellent traditional culture and based on people's lives have driven the Chinese film market to continuously create new brilliance.

He Jun, a professor at the School of Philosophy at Fudan University: Xi Jinping’s cultural thought is a theoretical innovation in which the soul of Marxism and the roots of China’s excellent traditional culture fit and achieve each other. It takes the practice of Chinese modernization as a realistic requirement and takes a Marxist stance and perspective. , method, deeply explore and interpret the value of the times of China’s excellent traditional culture, and provide a solid ideological foundation and strong spiritual power for promoting Chinese-style modernization.

"Let Marxism become Chinese, China's excellent traditional culture become modern, and let the new culture formed through 'combination' become a Chinese-style modern cultural form." Under the guidance of Xi Jinping’s cultural thoughts, the modern civilization of the Chinese nation is moving towards a brighter and brighter future with consistent persistence and unique innovation and creation.